Tripod

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Tripod is a word generally used to refer to a three-legged object, generally one used as a platform of some sort, and comes from the Greek tripous, meaning "three feet".

Tripod may also refer to:

sacrificial tripod, an ancient Greek altar
Tripod (photography), a device used to position, support, and stabilize a camera
Tripod (The War of the Worlds), a fictional vehicle
The Tripods, a series of science-fiction novels by English author John Christopher, and a UK TV series based upon the books
Tripod.com, a webhosting service
M2 tripod, a machine gun tripod
The tripod fish, Bathypterois grallator, deep sea fish named for the long extensions of its pelvic and lower caudal fins, on which it stands on the sea floor.
A portable crane (machine)
Visual Basic, whose forerunner was called tripod
A nickname for Alice in Chains (album), the final studio album by Alice in Chains
The "triPods", a parody of both the iPod and the War of the Worlds from Scary Movie 4
Tripod (band), a musical comedy act.
TriPod the band, a rock band with no guitars or keyboards

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